[WinPartners] popups

[Paul Dzus]

If you don't have a firewall, and are run NT/2K/XP, you can disable Windows' Messenger service:

>To work around this issue, turn off the Messenger service. To do so, follow these steps:
>
>   1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel (or point to Settings, and then click Control Panel).
>   2. Double-click Administrative Tools.
>   3. Double-click Services.
>   4. Double-click Messenger.
>   5. In the Startup type list, click Disabled.
>   6. Click Stop, and then click OK.
>
>Note If the Messenger service is stopped, messages from the Alerter service (notifications from your antivirus software, for example) are not transmitted. If the Messenger service is turned off, any services that explicitly depend on the Messenger service do not start, and an error message is logged in the System event log. For this reason, Microsoft recommends that you install a firewall and configure it to block NetBIOS and RPC traffic instead of turning off the Messenger service.


At 09:45 AM 9/16/2003, Dave Broderick wrote:
>Signficant Other started getting pop ups. She says she was not even on a browser; she was doing Comcast email using Outlook, and the pop ups kept coming. Is there a fix for these?
>
>David J. Broderick 
>djbroder at mit.edu 
>        Audio Visual Project Technician
>        MIT AV 617 253 2808 
>        FAX 617 253 5945 
>        <http://web.mit.edu/djbroder/www>http://web.mit.edu/djbroder/www 


Paul K. Dzus
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